linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: Do not allow retry alloc loop under open transaction

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Date:	Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:07:21 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K. V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ext4: Do not allow retry alloc loop under open
 transaction

On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:27:31 +0300, Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org> wrote:
> 
> Some times we call ->write_begin() with opened journal
> but write_begin() may internally call ext4_should_retry_alloc()
> in case of ENOSPC, which result in deadlock.
> This patch introduce new AOP_FLAG which should be tested on retry
> alloc path.
> 

Can you explain this further. We do a journal_stop before
ext4_should_retry_alloc. So not sure about the deadlock.

-aneesh
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